Language of Science

Beschreibung

Beschreibung

The fifth volume of the collected works of Professor M.A.K. Halliday, The Language of Science explores the semantic character of scientific discourse. The chapters are organized into two sections, one being on grammatical metaphor; the other dealing with scientific English. In language, there exists the potential for constructing new discourses, among them scientific discourse. The volume opens with a new work from Professor Halliday addressing the question, How big is a language? It is a question that goes to the heart of the paradigmatic complexity, or meaning potential, that characterizes language.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - On the power of language; Language and the reshaping of human experience; Language and knowledge: the 'unpacking' of text; Things and relations: regrammaticizing experience as technical knowledge; The grammatical construction of scientific knowledge: the framing of the English clause; On the language of physical science; Some grammatical problems in scientific English; On the grammar of scientific English; Writing Science: literacy and discursive power